How important is it that your purchases send a message about your personal values?

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Very Important

How important is it to you to have influence over the way large businesses behave?

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Very Important

When you joined Carrotmob you chose not to connect with Facebook. We have a good reason why it might be good for you to connect with Facebook. Do you want to hear our reason? (Yes, No Thanks)

You used Facebook to create an account. Will you also share some of your profile information with us so businesses will better understand our potential impact?

Great! The reason we want you to connect with Facebook is so that we have more helpful information about you. Giving us more information about yourself will directly help us make this movement as effective and impactful as possible.

Now you're thinking, "Wait, why do these guys care whether I mention my love for sushi on Facebook? That's kind of creepy." The truth is that we don't care at all. No offense, you're great and everything, but the reason we're asking is because having a database full of info about what our mob likes will help us convince businesses to do what we want. For example, let's say we wanted to convince a chain of sushi restaurants to only buy fish from responsible sources. If we go to them and say, "We have a million people," that will be OK, but not great. But if we go to them and say, "We have a million people, and we know 50,000 of them really like sushi," then that is going to be twice as effective. Businesses want data like that. They want to know that they are targeting good potential customers. So we don't care as much about having lots of info specifically about you, it's more that we care about having lots of good info about our mob overall, because we can use that information as leverage when we're negotiating with businesses on your behalf.

Lots of companies already have all kinds of information about you, and they use it to make money off of you in ways that don't provide too much benefit to you. It makes sense to be careful with your privacy, but we think that sharing this data with us makes more sense because we're using it to make YOU more powerful, and help empower YOU to get businesses to improve in the ways that you want! Also, you can always revoke our permission later if you change your mind. And of course we won't sell your info to anyone (see our Privacy Policy). Thanks for trusting us!

The reason we want you to connect with Facebook is so that we have more helpful information about you. Giving us more information about yourself will directly help us make this movement as effective and impactful as possible.

Now you're thinking, "Wait, why do these guys care whether I mention my love for sushi on Facebook? That's kind of creepy." The truth is that we don't care at all. No offense, you're great and everything, but the reason we're asking is because having a database full of info about what our mob likes will help us convince businesses to do what we want. For example, let's say we wanted to convince a chain of sushi restaurants to only buy fish from responsible sources. If we go to them and say, "We have a million people," that will be OK, but not great. But if we go to them and say, "We have a million people, and we know 50,000 of them really like sushi," then that is going to be twice as effective. Businesses want data like that. They want to know that they are targeting good potential customers. So we don't care as much about having lots of info specifically about you, it's more that we care about having lots of good info about our mob overall, because we can use that information as leverage when we're negotiating with businesses on your behalf.

Lots of companies already have all kinds of information about you, and they use it to make money off of you in ways that don't provide too much benefit to you. It makes sense to be careful with your privacy, but we think that sharing this data with us makes more sense because we're using it to make YOU more powerful, and help empower YOU to get businesses to improve in the ways that you want! Also, you can always revoke our permission later if you change your mind. And of course we won't sell your info to anyone (see our Privacy Policy). Thanks for trusting us!

What's your Twitter name? If you have lots of followers we'll be able to brag to big companies about how influential our mob is!

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The fastest and easiest way to join Carrotmob is by connecting with your Facebook
account. You will also be able see what your friends are doing on Carrotmob and quickly
share some of your activities with your network. To learn more about how this works,
read this. If you
are curious about the permissions we're requesting of your Facebook account,
read
this. Clicking this button will NOT post anything to your Facebook wall.